Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767930347 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen, prodding warlords for information, and witnessing the changes sweeping the Muslim world. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is her riveting story of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the promise of democracy; she records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, she marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews.. A National Book Award Finalist A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, journalist Megan K
"You can survive and not survive, both at the same time." In September 2001, Megan K. Stack, then a 25-year-old journalist with the Los Angeles Times, was in Paris. After 9/11 she was thrown into a journalistic breach and sent to Afghanistan. That happenstance introduced her to the War on Terror and a harrowing six years o. "KNOWNS AND UNKNOWNS" according to DAVID BRYSON. Megan Stack is a journalist, in my own opinion a superlative journalist. Following the 9/11 attacks she was detailed to cover the various situations in the Middle East and wherever we are to locate Afghanistan. She was in her 20's, younger (she tells us) than she re. Oh the Melodrama M. Costello Honestly, I could only make it through a hundred or so pages. When she talked about "turning her ribs into prison bars" at around page 30ish, I seriously considered giving up then and there. This book has good, no, great parts in it. But the effort to wade through t
Los Angeles Times correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. From Publishers Weekly An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir. All rights reserved. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. (Jun.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The big-picture lessons Stack draws—The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with it—are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region's horrific pa